Increase in registration for arms in Chandigarh

Chandigarh,Monday, 31 January 2012

Chandigarh is generally known as clean and calm city but going by the increase in registration of arms in the UT is a matter of debate. It is quite surprising that 1,675 different types of weapons have been registered at the 11 police stations of Chandigarh in the past 10 years.The Central Division of the city includes 3 police stations: Sectors 3, 11 and 17 and this division has the maximum number of 800 weapons being registered in the city, which is almost double the number of weapons registered at the two other divisions of the Chandigarh. These three police stations include 19 sectors and four villages, many of which are inhabited by the rich class of the city.

The Southern Division stands on second place in registering weapons in Chandigarh. This part of Chandigarh registered 580 weapons in the city. Southern Division covers sectors 31, 34 36 and 39 police stations falling under it. The East division comes at the last in terms of registration of weapons in Chandigarh. East division of city has a total of 295 weapons registered, which is least of all. It covers four police stations viz sec 26, sec 19, Industry Area and Manimajra.

The police station of Sector 3 comes at the top in terms of maximum number of weapons being registered with 358 weapons registered.Second spot has been taken by Sector 34 police station with 227 weapons being registered and Manimajra comes at the bottom with only 20 weapons registered.

According to the police the large number of weapon holders in Chandigarh are either retired or working army personnel. Not only this, number of revolvers and pistols too has seen an increase over the years apart from registration of foreign made weapons. Besides this, many people are inclined to go for single and double barrel guns.It may sound strange but it is true that Chandigarh police have cancelled only four licenses in the past decade due to different reasons. Out of these four, three arms license was cancelled by Sector 36 police station and the fourth license which was cancelled belonged to Davinder Singh Babla (former municipal councillor).










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